11/16/2013

I get sick of the Soros-funded, constantly showing up in my feed with their whining about the war on drugs, about supposedly "misguided" policies combating drug abuse and drug lords selling drugs, and even the "reconstruction" by the DEA of NSA intelligence about, say, Mexico or Afghanistan.

That's because drugs and their addicts and sellers wage war on me, my family, my community, my neighbourhood, and I think it's more than fine to fight back.

Many people who have never watched the justice system actually work in New York City have this illusion that there are "all these people" that are poor, black, Hispanic, minorities who are arrested for small amounts of marijuana and locked up.

That's not true, as the vast majority get a desk appearance ticket, and if they show up, the charges are often dismissed, in my experience watching how it works *directly*, not from theory.

If they are recidivists, if they have a little more amount of the drug, yes, they might find themselves forced into a plea-bargain, which is arguably overused in the system, or they might, if they are poor and black and forced to rely only on the Legal Aid Society, be shuffled into the poor people's court system, which indeed works very different than the rich people's court system, and be forced to go to jail or 30 days or do community service or worse. An expensive lawyer meanwhile may get his rich client off.

The rich can afford bail; it's impossible to even get bail if you are in debt or owe taxes or have some lien in your record -- it won't be given to you, even if you produce the 10 percent amount. Many attempts have been made to reform he bail system desperately in need of reform; it's currently unaccessible.

Stop and frisk is over used -- my son was among a group of youths hanging out in Brighton Beach, he dropped a kleenex on the ground while the police were trying to shake down these kids and find out if they had any drugs, and when the police accused him of throwing away drugs, he retrieved the dirty kleenex and explained he had allergies. This was considered sassing the police, and he got a desk appearance ticket. He had no drugs; none of them did. He complied with a request to retrieve and show what he had thrown away; he was not charged with any offense. Even so, he got the DAT. The DAT is WAY overused and I've seen this over and over again.

Yes, stop and frisk is overused on the poor and the black and Hispanic, and it should be reformed -- it is overbroad, in the apartment complexes, the homes, chasing people up stairwells into their apartments -- all of this is overkill. We all know this, but the judge in the case where it might have been reformed was too zealous and politicized and tried to throw the justice system toward her "progressive" beliefs and now the results are overturned. Pity.

So I don't have a problem understanding the justice systems flaws, and I'm four-square for civil rights.

here's the problem. There still needs to be a war on drugs *anyway*. Here's why.

The oxycontin epidemic sweeping over our state (roxies, blues) is hugely scary. It leads people to go to heroin and crack very quickly, they start powdering and smoking roxies then move to heroin.

It has been shockingly horrible for me to witness how neighbourhoods where I and my relatives live have been demolished by this drug epidemic that Soros thinks can be fixed merely by legalization or harm reduction and not combat with arrests, trials, sentences, diversion of youths into custody in juvenile homes, and compulsory treatment. I'm all for a separate drug court; then use it. Fight crime with it. It needs fighting.

Why? Because two children in my children's Facebook circles DIED from drugs. One minute my daughter is giving the homework assignment to a girl in front of her in a class; two hours later she is dead from a drug overdose. Another boy "wakes up dead" from taking a drug, his parents found him.

What's especially sad is how many Russians and Eurasians are caught up in this epidemic -- the children of dissidents, the children of Jewish refuseniks of the Soviet era, the children of Central Asians escaping tyranny of the Putin era, children of many scientists and mathematicians and teachers and computer programmerss who even got into good schools like Stuyvesant. Really, really sad to see this.

Kids maintaining drug dens in the rec room while their parents are at work -- and the police know it and do nothing. Why? They're waiting to catch the kingpins? So it's okay to watch dozens of our kids get addicted by these shadowy figures and do nothing in the mean time?! Kids arrested multiple times for bringing their friends to their parent's house even when they are home, getting them high, stealing all their computers and wallets. Kids arrested for stealing thousands of dollars of their parents' own jewelry to get drugs. Kids beaten by drug dealers to the point of disfigurement. Kids going to Rikers Island (prison) now instead of college.

I'm talking about dozens and dozens of kids -- it's a scourge. Kids who used to be on the playground, swinging, or on the basketball court, playing ball, or next to my kids in math class -- now on Rikers, now sent upstateto rehab, now in the hospital with broken bones from a drug dealer.

Please call me when you are a parent, and your kids have THIS happen to their friends. When you wake up every day thankful your kids aren't on drugs, and pray they will make it through another day in their drug-ridden schools without being harmed.

Harm reduction doesn't help -- I live in a neighbourhood chock full of hospitals where they all come for needles and methadone and the more popular suboxone which is really heroin, too, and all it does is add to more crime, more sales, more mayhem. I stood in line for a prescription for my son while he was in the hospital, and police are guarding the line, and trying to control the chaos caused by scamming drug addicts.

In between the time I handed my prescription in to the window, and the time I went to the line to wait two hours at another window for pick-up, *my son's prescription was simply stolen*. By the personnel. Before it even reached me. I had to go to doctors to get it again, who sighed because this happens a lot.

While in the hospital, I saw the personnel simply pocket the oxy that wasn't used -- say the patient was alseep, or didn't want the dose, or happened to have an allergy. Once issued, that medication doesn't go into a cabinet again -- it goes right into a pocket, and out the door.

The back ally is filled with personnel hanging out with homeless-like types doing..something. Whatever.

The streets are filled with hustlers, and they nod out in the parks. Then they start the cycle again stealing bikes, grabbing cell phones or jewelry.

A group of teens storm into a drug store, demanding the cough syrup required for Purple Drank as they call it. The clerk refuses. They threaten to trash the place. Or they grab the stuff for Drank and try to purchase it through the automatic checkout. The clerk casually lets it go through, chuckling as if "kids will be kids".

I once saw a mother of a boy high in class on dope all the time complain desperately to a principle. Why was he allowing smoking dope in school? The principle merely chuckled and joked about "red eyes". Why? Because it's a great management tool for violent youths -- let them dope themselves into a stupor, they sit quietly. Especially after they've crushed their legal Adderol and smoked it and then need to "come down".

Sorry, I'm not for legalizing drugs. Maybe that's because I see a social and city policy of deliberately making especially black kids stupid -- a shockingly racist policy, in fact. That's the policy of looking the other way as they smoke pot openly outside the school doors, or inside in the stair wells. The principals and and even the police don't fight this blatant abuse. It's a management tool. That the kids are too stupid to study or learn doesn't matter. They are moved along, pushed along, kept high. It's like Orwell's Soma. I have witnessed this countless times with my own eyes. Kids 12 and 13 getting stoned right in the school yard, damaging their growing brains, without any adults stopping them, anywhere, with police 10 feet away.

Doctors -- over and over again I see records where the doctor writes "home medications given" and oxy is listed, although in fact it wasn't issued, wasn't received - and once again pocketed and sold or used. I know two doctors who became addicts themselves -- and had to work painfully to overcome their addiction for years.

This is an epidemic. You don't fight epidemics with "harm reduction" like merely coughing into your sleeve or washing your hands. You combat it with real war. Stopping the root spreaders. Isolating and detoxing the spreaders. The sellers.

All of you human rights activists and other Soros-funded advocates -- you will never convince me. OSI has been mysteriously overthrown on this issue by powerful interests in California and elsewhere in the technolibertarian set who have coopted Soros into funding all this. Not that Soros apparently needed much persuasion, but it's mainly ideologues at the helm who have introduced this obsession with using stealth methods to work to undermine anti-drug legislation and move toward legalization. Hence:

o harm reduction, although it hasn't been shown to work, and no, not in Vancouver as claimed

o pain mitigation which is all well and good, but isn't accompanied by compulsory long-term court-ordered addiction treatment and tightening of procedures to prevent all the abuse I've just outlined above

o hospice/death amelioration which is used as a form of emotional blackmail to force people to legalize drugs in one medical setting, which is appropriate, but again, without the checks and balances of compulsory court-ordered treatment.

I saw what you did there, Soros; I'm unimpressed. Come and look into the face of a drug addicted 17-year-old boy who used to collect Pokemon cards with my kids who is now trying to steal my purse and who ends up in jail. Look into the face of a beaten-beyond-recognition addict who didn't have the promised drug money from sales to dozens of his friends he got hooked due to the flood. Come and sit with parents who lost their kids to drugs -- they come home and find a good student, age 18, lying dead with a needle hanging from his arm.

Many of you promoting this aren't parents at all. If you are, you have only small babies, not teens. you don't get it. You don't see it. You live in wealthy neighbourhoods where the bums and the hustlers and the vets hooked on smack just aren't visible to you. I do. So stop lecturing about human rights. Stop lecturing me about how you don't see the harm to society.

I do, daily. We need to keep the war on drugs. Your child or my child might be the next casualty in the war waged against us, which can only be met with war in return. Peace didn't work. If you don't believe me, send your children to public schools, like I do, and come back and tell me what you think in a year.

Oh, and if you want "humanism," and you think drugs should be legalized, why stop there? Why legalize them, and allow the addicted to stumble around stepping in front of buses or pushing people in front of subway cars?

Put them in warehouses, give them all the drugs they want, like gerbils pressing levers in a cage, give them three healthy meals a day, give them clean bedding, showers and a few other amenities for free -- movies, Internet -- and store them until they die.

That sort of shocking dehumanizing of people is actually what you are advocating, and actually what we will see.

Because of opposition to law-enforcement and the "medicalization" of crime, we will come to such warehouses.

It will be cheaper for the government to put people in such government-run drug hostels -- and hold them there until they either die or agree to go into detox and anti-addiction programs -- than let drugs be sold openly and cartels fight each other (which they will only do more when it is legal).

Just don't cry when you see your loved ones end up in such a warehouse.

Comments

I get sick of the Soros-funded, constantly showing up in my feed with their whining about the war on drugs, about supposedly "misguided" policies combating drug abuse and drug lords selling drugs, and even the "reconstruction" by the DEA of NSA intelligence about, say, Mexico or Afghanistan.

That's because drugs and their addicts and sellers wage war on me, my family, my community, my neighbourhood, and I think it's more than fine to fight back.

Many people who have never watched the justice system actually work in New York City have this illusion that there are "all these people" that are poor, black, Hispanic, minorities who are arrested for small amounts of marijuana and locked up.

That's not true, as the vast majority get a desk appearance ticket, and if they show up, the charges are often dismissed, in my experience watching how it works *directly*, not from theory.

If they are recidivists, if they have a little more amount of the drug, yes, they might find themselves forced into a plea-bargain, which is arguably overused in the system, or they might, if they are poor and black and forced to rely only on the Legal Aid Society, be shuffled into the poor people's court system, which indeed works very different than the rich people's court system, and be forced to go to jail or 30 days or do community service or worse. An expensive lawyer meanwhile may get his rich client off.

The rich can afford bail; it's impossible to even get bail if you are in debt or owe taxes or have some lien in your record -- it won't be given to you, even if you produce the 10 percent amount. Many attempts have been made to reform he bail system desperately in need of reform; it's currently unaccessible.

Stop and frisk is over used -- my son was among a group of youths hanging out in Brighton Beach, he dropped a kleenex on the ground while the police were trying to shake down these kids and find out if they had any drugs, and when the police accused him of throwing away drugs, he retrieved the dirty kleenex and explained he had allergies. This was considered sassing the police, and he got a desk appearance ticket. He had no drugs; none of them did. He complied with a request to retrieve and show what he had thrown away; he was not charged with any offense. Even so, he got the DAT. The DAT is WAY overused and I've seen this over and over again.

Yes, stop and frisk is overused on the poor and the black and Hispanic, and it should be reformed -- it is overbroad, in the apartment complexes, the homes, chasing people up stairwells into their apartments -- all of this is overkill. We all know this, but the judge in the case where it might have been reformed was too zealous and politicized and tried to throw the justice system toward her "progressive" beliefs and now the results are overturned. Pity.

So I don't have a problem understanding the justice systems flaws, and I'm four-square for civil rights.

here's the problem. There still needs to be a war on drugs *anyway*. Here's why.

The oxycontin epidemic sweeping over our state (roxies, blues) is hugely scary. It leads people to go to heroin and crack very quickly, they start powdering and smoking roxies then move to heroin.

It has been shockingly horrible for me to witness how neighbourhoods where I and my relatives live have been demolished by this drug epidemic that Soros thinks can be fixed merely by legalization or harm reduction and not combat with arrests, trials, sentences, diversion of youths into custody in juvenile homes, and compulsory treatment. I'm all for a separate drug court; then use it. Fight crime with it. It needs fighting.

Why? Because two children in my children's Facebook circles DIED from drugs. One minute my daughter is giving the homework assignment to a girl in front of her in a class; two hours later she is dead from a drug overdose. Another boy "wakes up dead" from taking a drug, his parents found him.

What's especially sad is how many Russians and Eurasians are caught up in this epidemic -- the children of dissidents, the children of Jewish refuseniks of the Soviet era, the children of Central Asians escaping tyranny of the Putin era, children of many scientists and mathematicians and teachers and computer programmerss who even got into good schools like Stuyvesant. Really, really sad to see this.

Kids maintaining drug dens in the rec room while their parents are at work -- and the police know it and do nothing. Why? They're waiting to catch the kingpins? So it's okay to watch dozens of our kids get addicted by these shadowy figures and do nothing in the mean time?! Kids arrested multiple times for bringing their friends to their parent's house even when they are home, getting them high, stealing all their computers and wallets. Kids arrested for stealing thousands of dollars of their parents' own jewelry to get drugs. Kids beaten by drug dealers to the point of disfigurement. Kids going to Rikers Island (prison) now instead of college.

I'm talking about dozens and dozens of kids -- it's a scourge. Kids who used to be on the playground, swinging, or on the basketball court, playing ball, or next to my kids in math class -- now on Rikers, now sent upstateto rehab, now in the hospital with broken bones from a drug dealer.

Please call me when you are a parent, and your kids have THIS happen to their friends. When you wake up every day thankful your kids aren't on drugs, and pray they will make it through another day in their drug-ridden schools without being harmed.

Harm reduction doesn't help -- I live in a neighbourhood chock full of hospitals where they all come for needles and methadone and the more popular suboxone which is really heroin, too, and all it does is add to more crime, more sales, more mayhem. I stood in line for a prescription for my son while he was in the hospital, and police are guarding the line, and trying to control the chaos caused by scamming drug addicts.

In between the time I handed my prescription in to the window, and the time I went to the line to wait two hours at another window for pick-up, *my son's prescription was simply stolen*. By the personnel. Before it even reached me. I had to go to doctors to get it again, who sighed because this happens a lot.

While in the hospital, I saw the personnel simply pocket the oxy that wasn't used -- say the patient was alseep, or didn't want the dose, or happened to have an allergy. Once issued, that medication doesn't go into a cabinet again -- it goes right into a pocket, and out the door.

The back ally is filled with personnel hanging out with homeless-like types doing..something. Whatever.

The streets are filled with hustlers, and they nod out in the parks. Then they start the cycle again stealing bikes, grabbing cell phones or jewelry.

A group of teens storm into a drug store, demanding the cough syrup required for Purple Drank as they call it. The clerk refuses. They threaten to trash the place. Or they grab the stuff for Drank and try to purchase it through the automatic checkout. The clerk casually lets it go through, chuckling as if "kids will be kids".

I once saw a mother of a boy high in class on dope all the time complain desperately to a principle. Why was he allowing smoking dope in school? The principle merely chuckled and joked about "red eyes". Why? Because it's a great management tool for violent youths -- let them dope themselves into a stupor, they sit quietly. Especially after they've crushed their legal Adderol and smoked it and then need to "come down".

Sorry, I'm not for legalizing drugs. Maybe that's because I see a social and city policy of deliberately making especially black kids stupid -- a shockingly racist policy, in fact. That's the policy of looking the other way as they smoke pot openly outside the school doors, or inside in the stair wells. The principals and and even the police don't fight this blatant abuse. It's a management tool. That the kids are too stupid to study or learn doesn't matter. They are moved along, pushed along, kept high. It's like Orwell's Soma. I have witnessed this countless times with my own eyes. Kids 12 and 13 getting stoned right in the school yard, damaging their growing brains, without any adults stopping them, anywhere, with police 10 feet away.

Doctors -- over and over again I see records where the doctor writes "home medications given" and oxy is listed, although in fact it wasn't issued, wasn't received - and once again pocketed and sold or used. I know two doctors who became addicts themselves -- and had to work painfully to overcome their addiction for years.

This is an epidemic. You don't fight epidemics with "harm reduction" like merely coughing into your sleeve or washing your hands. You combat it with real war. Stopping the root spreaders. Isolating and detoxing the spreaders. The sellers.

All of you human rights activists and other Soros-funded advocates -- you will never convince me. OSI has been mysteriously overthrown on this issue by powerful interests in California and elsewhere in the technolibertarian set who have coopted Soros into funding all this. Not that Soros apparently needed much persuasion, but it's mainly ideologues at the helm who have introduced this obsession with using stealth methods to work to undermine anti-drug legislation and move toward legalization. Hence:

o harm reduction, although it hasn't been shown to work, and no, not in Vancouver as claimed

o pain mitigation which is all well and good, but isn't accompanied by compulsory long-term court-ordered addiction treatment and tightening of procedures to prevent all the abuse I've just outlined above

o hospice/death amelioration which is used as a form of emotional blackmail to force people to legalize drugs in one medical setting, which is appropriate, but again, without the checks and balances of compulsory court-ordered treatment.

I saw what you did there, Soros; I'm unimpressed. Come and look into the face of a drug addicted 17-year-old boy who used to collect Pokemon cards with my kids who is now trying to steal my purse and who ends up in jail. Look into the face of a beaten-beyond-recognition addict who didn't have the promised drug money from sales to dozens of his friends he got hooked due to the flood. Come and sit with parents who lost their kids to drugs -- they come home and find a good student, age 18, lying dead with a needle hanging from his arm.

Many of you promoting this aren't parents at all. If you are, you have only small babies, not teens. you don't get it. You don't see it. You live in wealthy neighbourhoods where the bums and the hustlers and the vets hooked on smack just aren't visible to you. I do. So stop lecturing about human rights. Stop lecturing me about how you don't see the harm to society.

I do, daily. We need to keep the war on drugs. Your child or my child might be the next casualty in the war waged against us, which can only be met with war in return. Peace didn't work. If you don't believe me, send your children to public schools, like I do, and come back and tell me what you think in a year.

Oh, and if you want "humanism," and you think drugs should be legalized, why stop there? Why legalize them, and allow the addicted to stumble around stepping in front of buses or pushing people in front of subway cars?

Put them in warehouses, give them all the drugs they want, like gerbils pressing levers in a cage, give them three healthy meals a day, give them clean bedding, showers and a few other amenities for free -- movies, Internet -- and store them until they die.

That sort of shocking dehumanizing of people is actually what you are advocating, and actually what we will see.

Because of opposition to law-enforcement and the "medicalization" of crime, we will come to such warehouses.

It will be cheaper for the government to put people in such government-run drug hostels -- and hold them there until they either die or agree to go into detox and anti-addiction programs -- than let drugs be sold openly and cartels fight each other (which they will only do more when it is legal).

Just don't cry when you see your loved ones end up in such a warehouse.